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Landlords would be eligible to receive local housing allowance rates and the refugee family would receive resettlement support from the council.

The spokesperson added: "We are planning to resettle more families until we have fulfilled our pledge to resettle 100 people.

"We are supportive of the county council in their resettlement of unaccompanied asylum seeking children and are encouraging Cambridge residents to come forward as foster carers."

South Cambridgeshire MP Heidi Allen is leading efforts to amend legislation to require local authorities to report to the Government what capacity they have to support children's welfare, including unaccompanied refugee children.

The aim is to create an annual report of what support councils across the country have pledged to provide to refugees.

Mrs Allen's amendment to the Children and Social Work Bill will be debated tomorrow (Tuesday, March 7).

Cllr Lewis Herbert, leader of Cambridge City Council

Cllr Lewis Herbert, leader of the city council, said Cambridge and Cambridgeshire could support more refugees if given funding support from the Home Office.

He said: "We know that Cambridge city could accept their share particularly as there are thousands of single, unaccompanied children who are homeless still, and rootless and at serious risk in France.

"In 1939 Cambridge payed a part in the Kindertransport when children were rescued from Germany and the same could be done again, particularly as the city wants to help."

You can find out more on the Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign on its website.